Annissa Malvoisin.
Bard Graduate Center (BGC) is honored to introduce Annissa Malvoisin, the inaugural BGC/Brooklyn Museum Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Arts of Africa. According to Susan Weber, BGC’s founder and director, the new fellowship represents the opportunity to work with an outstanding emerging scholar whose research and experience will benefit both BGC and the Brooklyn Museum. Weber continued, “I’m delighted to join with Anne Pasternak and the curatorial team at the Brooklyn Museum in welcoming Annissa Malvoisin to New York.”
Malvoisin, a PhD candidate in the University of Toronto’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, specializes in Egyptology, Nubian studies, and museum studies. This summer, she will complete her doctoral thesis, which investigates ceramic production and trade in Meroitic Nubia and its far-reaching networks that potentially link the Nile Valley to Iron Age Western African cultures. She examines these trade networks by piecing together ceramic object biographies and identifying artistic similarities between them in order to better understand Nubian collections in North American museums. Malvoisin earned a master of museum studies from the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and incorporates museum theory and practice into her academic and professional work. She has developed expertise as a museum professional at the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives and at the Royal Ontario Museum in the Department of Arts and Culture: Global Africa and the Department of Ancient Egypt and Nubia.
